Foundations Commander

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Counterspell
Instant

Counter target spell.

Etherium Sculptor
Artifact Creature — Vedalken Artificer

Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

1/2
Fall from Favor
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature and you become the monarch.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step unless that player is the monarch.

Kappa Cannoneer
Artifact Creature — Turtle Warrior

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for .)

Ward

Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It can't be blocked this turn.

4/4
Launch Mishap
Instant

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Master of Etherium
Artifact Creature — Vedalken Wizard

Master of Etherium's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

"Only a mind unfettered with the concerns of the flesh can see the world as it truly is."

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Master Transmuter
Artifact Creature — Human Artificer

, , Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Wasted potential surrounds us. Lend me that bauble, and let me see what it can be made to be."

1/2
Memory Guardian
Artifact Creature — Robot Artificer

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Flying

For the Guidelight Voyagers, there is no such thing as junk.

3/4
Misleading Signpost
Artifact

Flash

When this artifact enters during the declare attackers step, you may reselect which player or permanent target attacking creature is attacking. (It can't attack its controller or their permanents.)

: Add .

Negate
Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

"As one, nature lifts its voice to tell you this: 'No.'"

Padeem, Consul of Innovation
Legendary Creature — Vedalken Artificer

Artifacts you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control the artifact with the greatest mana value or tied for the greatest mana value, draw a card.

"Impress me."

1/4
Propaganda
Enchantment

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays for each creature they control that's attacking you.

"The cost of your opposition will be extracted from your wits."

—Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Pull from Tomorrow
Instant

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

"I do things in my own time."

—Etha, initiate of Rhet crop

Research Thief
Artifact Creature — Moonfolk Wizard

Flash

Flying

Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

The Futurists eagerly supplement their research with their rivals' closely guarded secrets.

3/3
Shimmer Dragon
Creature — Dragon

Flying

As long as you control four or more artifacts, this creature has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Draw a card.

The indigo dragon gladly traded a bit of its hoard for everlasting moonlight.

5/6
Tamiyo's Logbook
Artifact — Book

, : Draw a card. This ability costs less to activate for each other artifact you control.

"We are opening a new chapter in the one true story of Phyrexia. Someone must record it for posterity."

—Tamiyo

Thirst for Knowledge
Instant

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Tezzeret grinned as he realized Mm'menon was right: he had much to learn.

Thopter Fabricator
Artifact — Vehicle

Flying

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Crew 2

Every camera had a backup, and every backup had a backup, and every backup's backup had a backup, too.

4/4
Thopter Spy Network
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Thought Monitor
Artifact Creature — Construct

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Flying

When this creature enters, draw two cards.

It roams the skies over the Quicksilver Sea, alert for any hint of aberrant thought.

2/2
Thoughtcast
Sorcery

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Draw two cards.

Vedalken eyes don't see the beauty in things. They see only what those things can teach.

Vedalken Archmage
Creature — Vedalken Wizard

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.

"The Knowledge Pool knows. Memnarch understands."

—Janus, speaker of the synod

0/2
Whirler Rogue
Creature — Human Rogue Artificer

When this creature enters, create two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying.

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

2/2
Ambition's Cost
Sorcery

You draw three cards and lose 3 life.

"Conquering your first world is the hardest, after all. My power grew as I moved from world to world, taking anything that would make the next taking easier."

—Ob Nixilis

Army of the Damned
Sorcery

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Ayara, First of Locthwain
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Mourning shifts seamlessly to celebration as she chooses her next suitor.

2/3
Bad Moon
Enchantment

Black creatures get +1/+1.

Carrion Feeder
Creature — Zombie

This creature can't block.

Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

It has no respect for the deeds of martyrs, reducing their legacy to a mouthful of flesh.

1/1
Cemetery Reaper
Creature — Zombie

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.

, : Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Every grave cradles a recruit.

2/2
Cemetery Recruitment
Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If it's a Zombie card, draw a card.

"There's a smoothness to my magic here that I don't find on any other plane."

Champion of the Perished
Creature — Zombie

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

He rose from the graf for every cobbler, tanner, and fool who'd been slaughtered in the parish—and they rose and shambled after him.

1/1
Consumed by Greed
Instant

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)

Target opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. If the gift was promised, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Consuming Corruption
Instant

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

While crossing the mire, Lort the Sneaky found the perfect shortcut to the end of his life.

Cryptbreaker
Creature — Zombie

, , Discard a card: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Tap three untapped Zombies you control: You draw a card and lose 1 life.

1/1
Death Baron
Creature — Zombie Wizard

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

For the necromancer barons, killing and recruitment are one and the same.

2/2
Diregraf Colossus
Creature — Zombie Giant

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard.

Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

2/2
Endless Ranks of the Dead
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

With Thraben's army recalled to its city walls, outlying villages were left to fend for themselves.

Eternal Taskmaster
Creature — Zombie

This creature enters tapped.

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay . If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sometimes she considered how much easier it would have been to stay dead.

2/3
Fleshbag Marauder
Creature — Zombie Warrior

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Grixis is a world where the only things found in abundance are death and decay. Corpses, whole or in part, are the standard currency among necromancers and demons.

3/1
Go for the Throat
Instant

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Having flesh is increasingly a liability on Mirrodin.

God-Eternal Bontu
Legendary Creature — Zombie God

Menace

When God-Eternal Bontu enters, sacrifice any number of other permanents, then draw that many cards.

When God-Eternal Bontu dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put her into her owner's library third from the top.

5/6
Grave Titan
Creature — Giant

Deathtouch

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Death in form and function.

6/6
Graveborn Muse
Creature — Zombie Spirit

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

"Her voice is damnation, unyielding and certain."

—Phage the Untouchable

3/3
Gravecrawler
Creature — Zombie

This creature can't block.

You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create."

—Liliana Vess

2/1
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Creature — Zombie

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

2/4
Headless Rider
Creature — Zombie

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Zombie you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

He wanders the Moorlands hoping to one day chop off a head worthy of replacing his own.

3/1
Josu Vess, Lich Knight
Legendary Creature — Zombie Knight

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Menace

When Josu Vess enters, if he was kicked, create eight 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature tokens with menace.

4/5
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior

Lifelink

If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.

3/4
Liliana's Mastery
Enchantment

Zombies you control get +1/+1.

When this enchantment enters, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

"There are so many of them. It seems they've just been waiting for someone to serve."

Liliana's Reaver
Creature — Zombie

Deathtouch

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

4/3
Lord of the Accursed
Creature — Zombie

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.

, : All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

The Curse of Wandering leaves only hatred.

2/3
Lord of the Undead
Creature — Zombie

Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1.

, : Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Do not weep at your defeat, my dear. In death, you will serve a greater purpose—mine."

2/2
Marchesa's Decree
Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

"Those who seize power must have the means to hold it."

—Queen Marchesa

Midnight Reaper
Creature — Zombie Knight

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

No one welcomes his visit, yet all must grant him tribute.

3/2
Mire Triton
Creature — Zombie Merfolk

Deathtouch

When this creature enters, mill two cards and you gain 2 life. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Caught between life and death, between land and sea, between thought and oblivion.

2/1
Moan of the Unhallowed
Sorcery

Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.

Mutilate
Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Liliana developed a fondness for the moment when roaring becomes squealing.

Necrotic Hex
Sorcery

Each player sacrifices six creatures of their choice. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

"You foolish knights pound your breastplates and vow to fight until your last breath. As if that's when it ends."

—Tormod, the Desecrator

Night's Whisper
Sorcery

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

"I have seen things that would reduce a weaker person to blubbering and raving. Want to hear about them?"

—Vraska

Noxious Ghoul
Creature — Zombie

Whenever this creature or another Zombie enters, all non-Zombie creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Plague and death wrapped in one convenient package.

3/3